Feel free to take it as a bit of life advice, a la Ferris Bueller. Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop once in a while to enjoy it, you could miss it.

But take it also as a literal reminder. Slow down through town! The speed limit is 30 km/hour. Yes, the lake is waiting. Yes, you’ve got a ton of errands. Yes, everything at the end of the drive is more enticing than logging another few minutes in your vehicle.

But, especially with back to school around the corner, lighten the foot on the pedal, and drop ‘er into cruise mode, through downtown Pemberton and Mt Currie. If we want family friendly kid-healthy walkable Main Streets, then drivers need to simmer down.

“Nobody actually follows our speed signs or stop signs in the area so I recreated this shot for a friendly reminder, during the solar eclipse.” Photo by Dana Andrew

Downtown Pemberton and downtown Mt Currie are SLOW ZONES, because they’re family zones, kid zones, bike and walk and stroll zones. Save your hustle for the highway, drivers. And make eye contact. It’s a nice way to remember that, wherever we’re headed, we’re here right now. Neighbours. With our lives in each other’s hands.